Where did the HIV-positive idea come from? I’m fairly certain that this song is about Mike Hadreas' struggle with Crohn’s disease. He was quoted in an interview with American Songwriter as saying the following: “I guess a lot of my thinking is wrapped up in body stuff,” he says. “I’m not certain how that happened or why I’ve attached so many things to it. I think it’s because I was sick a lot growing up, and also just the way I look is such an easy place to put a lot of my anxieties. When they’re generalized, you know, I don’t really know what to do with them so I’ll just pick at my face. It’s a good physical thing to blame, when things happen.”

About “My Body”
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“My Body” is about Mike Hadreas (Perfume Genius) describing how in his mind, how his body really works. If people want his body, they’re going to have to take it how it is.

Mike said in an interview:

I’ve treated my insides like shit a lot, my body just really makes me uncomfortable. I have Crohn’s disease, so I was a ‘sick kid’ growing up. I started drinking and doing a lot of drugs—I just didn’t take care of myself, and I never really have. I never thought much about it, really. And any time I would have a reality check about what I was doing to my body, I would just get so disgusted with it that I would disappear again.